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George Silver comments on The Internet Meme and 15 Minutes of Fame

George Silver — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:30:47 +0000

Here's a good list I came across:-

Obama Bucket List
First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.
First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.
First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States.
First President to violate the War Powers Act.
First President to defy a Federal Judge’s court order to cease implementing the Health Care Reform Law.
First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.
First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S. , including those with criminal convictions.
First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.
First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.
First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.
First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke-out on the reasons for their rate increases.
First President to tell a major manufacturing company (Boeing) in which State they are allowed to locate a factory.
First President to fire an inspector general of Ameri-corps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.
First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.
First President to hide his medical, educational and travel records.
First President to go on multiple global ‘apology tours’-including bowing to foreign rulers.
First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends; paid for by the taxpayer.
First President to say that America was not a Christian nation.
First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) just for his wife.
First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.

mava comments on Bring On The Robots

mava — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 05:02:05 +0000

Jack London is one of my favorite writers. Strange thing about London is that to me, he comes off as a rugged capitalist type, while in reality, he flirted with socialism (this about London, I wish I never knew). He was not stupid, so why would he entertain socialism then? The only possible solution to this that London was dishonest, and meant to use socialism in the same way Stalin did.

Ouroboros comments on Bring On The Robots

Ouroboros — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:36:48 +0000

Seems the only chance dum witted humanity has of saving itself from future he'll of the 4threich is a total collapse, all organizations shall fail. A blessing in disguise if you will. There are very few things that can turn back the savage future that rushes toward us like an approaching wave rolling into the seashore.
I expect civilization to end as we know it.....something new shall replace it. It is a recurring cycle that has been repeating itself on this earth since the beginning times. Basically the current world is only an illusion, global trade,bonds, stocks...all figments of imagination....there is no substance behind anything. Once the dust settles the days might be spent gathering food and water as our not to distant ancestors did.....only time shall tell.

George Silver comments on Bring On The Robots

George Silver — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:38:39 +0000

I would have thought that the introduction of "drones" would be a bonus to all the people who can't get away from work to do a bit of hunting.

Just imagine one these drones flying over nice and low. What a temptation.

Jeff Berwick comments on Bring On The Robots

Jeff Berwick — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:14:01 +0000

Here is a good article on how 1984 was actually about the future of England under the Fabian Socialists.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_49_17/ai_81790763/

From the Article:

If Orwell's totalitarian state seems to be arriving about 20 years late, it is not because he mistargeted the book by naming it 1984. A careful review of the literary evidence reveals that he was aiming at the period immediately following the year 2000 but wanted to memorialize the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Fabian Society.

But when Orwell wrote 1984, it was more than a show of dislike for the Fabian socialists; it was humorous, biting, Swiftian satire against the socialist and liberal intellectuals. The leftist elites, then as now, praised the book for the wrong reasons. They applauded Orwell's resistance to the loss of civil liberties but refused, and continue to refuse, to see the book as a mirror held up to the totalitarian face of the left-wing intelligentsia. They tiptoe away from such questions as: Why choose the year 1984 as the title? Is it really just a science-fiction fantasy or is it political satire; and, if so, against whom is it directed? Finally, what are the likely sources of Orwell's dystopia?

West reports that Orwell, who had served in the imperial police in Burma and chronicled his adventures in Burmese Days and in the essay, "Shooting an Elephant," enjoyed a distinguished reputation in India. As a result, the BBC asked him to produce programs about the glorious future of A.D. 2000 under British rule. For this series, Orwell interviewed celebrated futurists, scientists and technologists, getting live responses to questions about the future of agriculture, science and technology. For another BBC broadcast, Orwell produced an analysis of one of his favorite books, Jack London's 1908 novel, The Iron Heel, a fanciful description of the perfect fascist state, Asgard, which reaches its full power to crush the people in ... 1984.

BK comments on Bring On The Robots

BK — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:07:19 +0000

Agreed on all. That shit with the robot drones sounds like something out of Terminator3. I wonder how many of the mindless drones we have here on terra firma will be following THE ONE in November-- probably just enough, with the ballot manipulations, to keep him and his brood from packing any bags just yet. I imagine they'll all be overdosing on laughter through the elections. I also read your encounter with the po-leese in CA-- THAT was an eye-opener. I dont think you'll see it mentioned in any of the local or national press. Thank God for the internet--- For now. keep up the good work and passing us the info. I share your mailings all the time.

BanderSnatch comments on Bring On The Robots

BanderSnatch — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:06:22 +0000

"At least if the robots have some form of artificial intelligence... better than non-existant intelligence... we may be able to talk some sense into them. Maybe in the not so distant future, there will be a DDoS attack on the Pentagram's servers, and the power will once more return to the hands of the people. Armies of programmers from around the world, like those who work with Anonymous, could find a way to short circuit or reprogram the drones.
Who knows, maybe we could get them reprogrammed and send all 20,000 en route toWashington DC, programmed to disarm the very police state that created them."

Ha! This made me smile.

Craig comments on Bring On The Robots

Craig — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:04:54 +0000

Jeff You have a bang on bead on this. We are vaulting into the Terminator future with light speed. The only thing slower that this race to the future is the speed of the drones and the thinking of the drones that think this stuff up. Keep looking upwards. Candid Camera IS looking for you and me. thank you for the good work and thinking.

Anonymous comments on The Dollar Vigilante Kidnapped and Handcuffed in Palm Springs

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:00:34 +0000

I used to live in the same area but closer to Palm Desert. The police are very much like Nazis and I know of the restaurant The Nest [though I never hung out there]. Although the whole resort area is teaming with undercover black ops agents it looks very benign with up-market spas and exclusive gated golfing communities [PGA tournament, etc].

Several well-known "Elite snow birds" have vacation homes here. In fact, gracing Rancho Mirage -- the town between Palm Desert and Palm Springs -- our glorious, ex-Prez and child pornographer, Gerald Ford was holed up in snazzy retirement, protected by a fleet of Secret Service [before he thankfully died]

This story doesn't surprise me in the least however I wonder how anyone could take these dangerous threats and assaults by the Gestapo so lightly. People do go missing quite regularly there and are later found buried out in the surrounding desert.
Of course the police never catch the killers.

spiritsplice comments on Bring On The Robots

spiritsplice — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:27:34 +0000

Mava, Orwell originally titled the book "1948".